Google Tales: Searching for directory sites: Google – Yahoo! questions “We began to notice in early March that Yahoo! pages seemed to be rising in Google search rankings. This was
several months before Google’s alliance with Yahoo! was announced on June 26, so we had no reason to think that
there was any connection. But Yahoo!’s rankings kept rising in the succeeding months, and the announcement of
the Google-Yahoo! alliance naturally raised questions about the connection.”

A Broken Electoral System: compendium of five articles — by Ariana Huffington, Cedric Muhammad, Harold Meyerson, Steven Hill and Clark Williams-Derry — highlighting the inadequacies of our system so clearly spelled out by this remarkable election. AlterNet

BadAds.org: Slam Bad Ads! [Are there any other kind?]

The Way to Ex-Gay: A growing “ex-gay” movement, largely fundamentalist-Christian-based, is appealing to numbers of men trying not to be gay. There’s also mounting evidence of the damage done to them if they “succeed.” AlterNet

Cremation Nation: As the popularity of cremation grows, more and more elaborate — and bizarre — options for scattering or retaining the ashes appear. “It’s a good thing so many
Americans are choosing
cremation for their dearly
departed. The new options for
memorializing ‘cremains’ would
make some of them turn in their
graves.” Silicon Valley Metro